Amagami SS – 01

So far this show is your typical anime high school romance, with your typical choice of pretty girls, a typical guy, and some typical Japanese brother-sister complex thrown in for good measure. The only non-typical thing about this show is the male, Junichi, has a self-made star-constellation-planetarium thing in his closet, where he also happens to sleep in for goodness sakes.

The show opens with Junichi in a sea of stars floating all naked in some introspective scene because Japanese high school romance is serious business.

By the end, I neither hated it nor liked it, so I suppose that’s a pretty good thing. Means it has potential! The only reasons any sane person watching this show next week are the girls are all cute, you really like romance anime, or you’re a girl.

Junichi himself is pretty tolerable. He’s a kind of shy, non-aggressive, and can hold a conversation with girls without collapsing. Too bad he pretty much gets played throughout the entire episode by one girl and then dumped soon afterward. Ouch?

On a side note, Japanese high school boys like to hump each other in a game of horse. If it happens in anime of course it’s true in real life! Right?

Rating: 3/5